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Chris Fitter is Professor of English at Rutgers University. He gained his PhD from St. John's College, University of Oxford and has taught at Wroxton College and the University of Mississippi. His leading interests are in literature and the natural world, the politics of Shakespearean drama, and representations of poverty in Western literature.
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Counter-traditional re-readings of Shakespeare's plays, in the light of recent findings by the new social historians that the mass of ordinary commoners in Shakespeare's England held passionate political views and principles, frequently at odds with those of their rulers.
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[Annabel] Patterson contributes a lively afterword to this excellent collection that reopens some of the questions posed by her work ... Chris Fitter makes a compelling case that this represents a neglected opportunity ... and provides a valuable overview of the key conclusions reached by a generation of social historians. A new understanding of politics as involving continuous interaction between commoners and elites has been one of the signal achievements of this continuing historical research ... as the editor concludes, 'The politically thinkable in Shakespeare's England traversed an astoundingly wide discursive spectrum' ... This collection demonstrates how dialogue between historians and literary critics can be convened ... and the approaches of social history inspire new critical readings.
